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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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CHARLES W. CORWIN was born in Pike county, Ohio, Feb. 14, 1847, where he remained until sixteen years of age, when he came West and settled in Tazewell county, Ill., in the year 1865. Here he resided six years, until the fall of 1871, soon migrating to Texas, and in April, 1873, went to Iowa City, and in the following year returned to his then home county in Illinois, coming to Jasper county, Mo., in 1874. He married Anna B. Morgan April 15, 1875, of Montana, Labette county, Kan., who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 13, 1855. The names of the children are Jennie and John, who are bright, charming children. His farm of 120 acres is in township 29, range 33, section 14. Good orchard of about ten acres, and the past season of 1882 thirty-three acres of winter wheat yielded 1,000 bushels. According to an old genealogy Mr. Corwin traces his antecedents back to Tom Corwin of such wide reputation.
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